I remember the day I hit the wall.
I was building a feature that needed to summarize user-submitted content, ask follow-up questions, and then generate a structured report. Three different AI tasks, and I was already using three different providers: OpenAI for summaries, Claude for reasoning, and a local model for sensitive data. My codebase looked like a spaghetti plate of API keys, rate-limit retries, and inconsistent error handling.
Every time I wanted to add a new AI-powered feature, I had to copy-paste the same HTTP client setup, parse different response formats, and pray the try-except blocks caught everything. It was fragile. It was ugly. I knew there had to be a better way.
What I tried that didn’t work
A unified third-party SDK
